[Gllug] laptops (was Sony Vaio)

[Tim Gray]

> has anyone tried http://www.dnuk.com/store/notebooks.php ?

They look good, my only criticism is that they don't do any AMD stuff.

Tim

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From: "Sean Burlington" <sean at uncertainty.org.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] laptops (was Sony Vaio)


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> has anyone tried http://www.dnuk.com/store/notebooks.php ?
> 
> at prices from 705 (+ VAT) - and no M$ tax it looks very apealing to me
> 
> I've bought desktops from them and been very happy ...
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 03 May 2002 2:32 pm, Martyn Drake wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:16:08 +0000 Tushar Joshi wrote:
> > > I was looking at that today, 512mb ram 30 gig HD 1.2 G cpu, 15'1 TFT
> > > at only 1200 including!
> >
> > Yes, they're well specced in terms of memory and CPU power, but I've had
> > endless problems with Advent.  I remember buying one from PC World,
> > getting it home and using Windows on it quite satisfactory for a couple
> > of days.
> >
> > I came around to installing SuSE 7.2 on it, and as soon as I did, the
> > screen died horribly and I couldn't get the machine to work ever again.
> > Went to PC World the next day for an exchange.
> >
> > I'v found that the Advent's hard drives are pretty slow and unimpressive
> > as well - which is another reason why I don't touch them.  They also
> > have pretty rubbish graphics cards.
> >
> > > Although it looks a bit tacky.
> >
> > And that's another reason - it's all adding up ;)
> >
> > > Although the HP presario looks very good it doesn't have a serial port
> > > so I can't connect to cisco boxes etc.
> >
> > I wouldn't touch HP stuff either.  Your best bet is the Dell range of
> > laptops.  They're always extremely well specced all round, and you get
> > good support for them as well.  Go for Dell :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Martyn
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